Congress spokesman Sachin Sawant on 16th February urged Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh to initiate criminal proceedings against BJP’s IT cell chief and 12 influencers for asking celebrities to tweet against the farmers’ strike. According to Sawant, a preliminary probe has established that BJP’s IT cell was directly involved in the Twitter comments by celebrities like Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar, on the farmers’ strike. The influencers allegedly forced the celebrities to tweet, he added.
Sachin Sawant said, “The NDA government has initiated criminal proceedings against activist Disha Ravi and a few others, but it has maintained a silence on Arnab Goswai who should have been booked under the Official Secrets Act.”